Malice Aforethought
1979•12•1 Seasons•4 Episodes•6.0•Ended
MysteryDramaComedy
Malice Aforethought is a four-part 1979 BBC Two miniseries by Philip Mackie, adapted from Anthony Berkeley Cox's (pen name Francis Iles) 1931 noir novel of the same name. For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.
Creator
Philip Mackie
Network
BBC Two
Origin
GB
Cast
Hywel Bennett
Dr Edmund Bickleigh
Cheryl Campbell
Madeleine Cranmere
Belinda Carroll
Ivy Ridgeway
David Ashford
William Chatford
Vivienne Moore
Maid
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